Taylor has since renovated the house for improved robustness and energy efficiency, 18 years after first building it. Called "Moonshine", the home is a renovated 18th-century crenellated schoolhouse, with an added wing that Taylor built himself, carrying materials across a 600 metre steep incline due to a lack of vehicular access at the time. He was awarded the AJ's Small Projects 2009 prize for his own family home and studio, located in the woodland near Bath. He collaborated with Samuel in the 2021 Homes of the Future report for Vodafone, which predicts technological features such as home drones, the elimination of light switches, smart heating, and pet-caring robots. Since 2017, Taylor is pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Reading, with research in alternative design processes that incorporate making, under the supervision of Flora Samuel. Invisible Studio does not have employees, using collaborations for each project instead. He decided to break with the prevailing corporate culture of mainstream architectural practices and conventional designs, sending an email to his contacts which talked about a studio "which is a provocative and polemical vehicle for collaboration, experimentation, research and education". In 2006, he founded the Mitchell Taylor Workshop together with Rob Mitchell, now Mitchell Eley Gould, resigning in 2012 to start his current practice, Invisible Studio. He started in graphic design but changed to architecture after attending lectures by Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, who would become an inspiration for Taylor's career. Taylor went to Australia when he was 22 years old to study at the University of Technology Sydney.
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